Quoted: One single risk factor will never explain the entirety of psychiatric problems, wrote Chuck Raison, a psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in a special report on the topic in Psychiatric Times. But “inflammation turned out to be a common denominator and likely risk factor for every manner of psychiatric disturbance, from schizophrenia to obsessive compulsive disorder, from mania to depression,” he wrote.
July 23, 2019
Research
Food Pantry Helps Columbia Students Struggling to Pay Bills
A study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison estimates that as many as one-third of American undergraduates experience food insecurity while pursuing college degrees.
SlothBot, the slow but efficient robot, with a cunning mechanism
“The life of a sloth is pretty slow-moving,” said project consultant Jonathan Pauli, and ecologist from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “The nice thing about a very slow life is that you don’t really need a lot of energy input. You can have a long duration and persistence in a limited area with very little energy inputs.”
Boys hit puberty earlier, partially due to rise in BMI
These findings can only be “cautiously extrapolated to a heavier and more heterogeneous population of US adolescent boys,” Dr. Vanessa Curtis from the University of Iowa and Dr. David Allen from the University of Wisconsin wrote in an editorial that published alongside the study.
Higher Education/System
UW System pays $325K to settle sex harassment suit
The former student, identified as A.R. in court documents, sued in October alleging UW-Oshkosh failed to take action against former art professor Michael Beitz.
Former UW-Oshkosh student reaches $325,000 settlement in sex harassment case
The University of Wisconsin System reached a $325,000 settlement with a former student who says UW-Oshkosh violated her rights and acted “with deliberate indifference” to the sexual harassment she faced from one of her professors.
UW System settles for $325,000 in sexual harassment case
The University of Wisconsin System agreed to pay $325,000 to a former UW-Oshkosh student who alleges she was sexually harassed for years by a former professor the university and UW System Board of Regents never disciplined.
Campus life
TRAFFIC ALERT: Road closures on UW’s campus
Some roads on UW’s campus will be closed starting Tuesday.
Road closures and detours starting this week in downtown Madison
“This project and most of the other projects on campus are to upgrade utilities,” Marc Lovicott, the spokesperson for University of Wisconsin Police Department said.
UW-Madison Welcomes 80 New PEOPLE Scholars
UW-Madison has welcomed another 80 Precollege Enrichment Opportunity for Learning Excellence (PEOPLE) freshmen scholars this fall and another 157 high school seniors are ready to apply for admission, having just completed the PEOPLE precollege program designed to develop well-prepared college candidates.
Knight Foundation funding studies on media and democracy
Grants will go to New York University, Carnegie Mellon, George Washington, North Carolina, the University of Washington, Indiana, Stanford, Texas, Wisconsin, Yale and the Data & Society Research Institute.
Athletics
After tough loss, Katie Ledecky must refocus at swimming world championships
“That would have devastated most 15-year-old swimmers,” said Sugiyama, now the swimming coach at the University of Wisconsin. “But after the initial shock and disappointment, we focused on the positive — something I’m sure Greg Meehan will be doing — and Katie recovered.”
Opinion
Opinion | The Vicious Fun of America’s Most Famous Literary Circle
This year is the 100th anniversary of the first meeting of the Algonquin Round Table, one of the 20th century’s most famous literary gatherings.
Dr. Ratner-Rosenhagen is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Opinion | McConnell Doesn’t Want the Senate to Talk About Trump’s Tweets. Here’s a Way Around Him.
Whether Republican senators would rise to the occasion is debatable. With John McCain and Jeff Flake now gone from the Senate, it seems less likely that many of their Republican colleagues will take a stand against this racist tilt to our politics. But the only way we can know is to get them on record. A round robin would give them just such an opportunity.
-John Milton Cooper is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW Experts in the News
In Hunter Biden’s career from Ukraine to China, his father is often nearby
Quoted: Yoshiko M. Herrera, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who is an expert in Russia and Eurasian policy, said in an interview that Hunter Biden’s service with Burisma is a serious issue.
Recall Campaigns Against State Lawmakers Are On The Rise?
Quoted: Growing partisanship has made both Republicans and Democrats willing to embrace once unthinkable political tactics, such as recalls, said Howard Schweber, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Here is how we can shop more sustainably in Ireland according to campaigner Laura Costello
Quoted: However it’s not all doom and gloom because we have the technology to shift to a carbon-neutral energy system according to Jonathan Patz, a physician and director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He’s been studying the health effects of global warming for two decades. “We’re not waiting for solutions,” he told the paper. “We’re simply waiting for the political will to understand that the solutions are here.”
Can you still afford to rent in Madison?
Quoted: And there are other challenges to making the leap from renting to owning, says Kurt Paulsen, a University of Wisconsin–Madison associate professor of urban and regional planning.
UW-Madison Related
Does This Red Cap Make Me Look MAGA?
“One of my favorite hats is a red University of Wisconsin Badgers hat,” said Corey Looby, 31, a database manager from Madison, Wis. “But when I traveled, I would regularly notice glares from people I passed on the street. I don’t want to be associated with MAGA, even mistakenly, so I stopped wearing it.”
Thousands without power after explosion, fire at Madison Gas and Electric
The first and larger of the two fires appears to be at the MG&E property at 1722 E. Main St., just off on East Washington Avenue. A second fire could be seen at the substation behind Ogg Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Knight Foundation gives $50 million to digital media research
The Foundation also is allocating nearly $14 million to support existing programs at the following five universities: Indiana University; Stanford; University of Texas at Austin; University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Yale, both the Thurmond Arnold Project and Project on Governing the Digital Public Spher
Savion Castro chosen unanimously to fill vacant Madison School Board seat
In the run-up to the 2014 gubernatorial election, Savion Castro, then a University of Wisconsin-Madison student and PEOPLE program scholar, interned for the Democratic nominee and Madison School Board member Mary Burke’s campaign.